Okay, good. Just checking.
I have no idea what happened when the last season left off.
Yep. And based on the photos/screensaver at the HBO site, there’s going to be a very special return tonight.
They’re bringing back Sookie’s eyebrows!
Joey P, here’s an episode guide for season 3, listed in reverse chronological order, so you can jog your memory. I’m going to have to look at Dexter one of these days, because I’ve gone fuzzy on that finale instead.
Looking forward to it. Did anyone watch the sneak peak? It’s on comcast on demand if you missed it. Is that supposed to be a scene from tonight’s episode, because if it is, that’s going to be interesting. Here’s a recap:
[spoiler]Sookie and her Fairy Godmother zap into Fairyland, and she finds her grandad there. They’re all having a grand time eating “light fruit” when the Fairly Queen arrives. Sookie sees that they fairies are really hiding their actual (hideous) appearance. Suddenly the veil drops and we see what the real fairies look like and fairyland is really a desert wasteland. Sookie and grandad escape up a mountain and join up with “good” fairies, who let them jump back through the porthole to normal reality. Apparently, the Fairy Queen wants to seal off the portal to keep out vampires, but some still want to return to earth.
Interestingly, Sookie and Grandad are called “the humans” and do not have the same appearance as the real fairies. I guess that is because they are hybrids?
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How fast time goes! Seems like just last week Bill and the queen were frozen, facing off in mid-air, in suspended animation for a year!
I haven’t watched the sneakpeek, but it’s supposed to be the first six minutes of tonight’s episode. Skimming through first line of John Mace’s spoiler suggests that they’re tying in some stuff from book eight already, jeez.
Book 8? How many were there?
- Newest one just released a month or two ago.
BTW, I’d be surprised if the sneak peek is the first 6 minutes of tonight’s episode. There is sort of a continuity break about half-way through. Maybe it’s just bad editing, but it seemed like maybe they stitched together two scenes to make it look like one. Perhaps they jump to another scene in the actual episode and then jump back later. Not a big deal either way.
There are also a bunch of little shorts on HBO’s on demand screen on comcast that give some background to the various supernaturals.
Open spoilers after the episode airs? This thread? A new thread?
We’ll probably have to do it in a new thread. People will snivel if there isn’t a warning in the thread title.
New thread is fine with me.
Is anyone watching next weeks episode online? Is it the whole episode (as the implied) or just part of it?
The one thread for GOT about an earlier-than-aired-episode (from HBO Go) sank like a stone compared to other GOT threads, so I doubt many dopers will see TB’s next episode before next weekend even if the whole thing is available to some.
OK, the discontinuity was just the opening sequence. That makes sense.
I did and regretted it, because my TV broke and I was forced to watch it LIVE! on another TV and couldn’t fast forward through that part. It was ridiculous, but clearly intentionally so.
Yeah, and all that talk of “harvesting”. I don’t want to be spoiled in terms of actual plot points, but I would love to be spoiled from the novels of the general “mythology” of fairies in the Stackhouse universe. I kind of knew about “don’t eat in fairy land” from other fairy stories, and also know that in the novels the telepathy isn’t a fairy-related thing, but otherwise I’m naive. Such as, what is the nature of this “harvesting”? Do they only harvest hybrids? What’s up with the rebel faction? Is Sookie’s godmother good or bad in the end? Why do the fairies and fairy-land look idyllic, and then look ugly?
Insert title sequence.
Oh no two threads! How ever shall I choose?
I’d love to spoil you on the mythology, but the show has taken a total turn from the books with regards to the fairies. They’re NOTHING like they are in the books, and their plot stuff has nothing to do with the book plots.